<div dir="auto">Yes. Especially the read failures logged in self-test is a good indicator.<div dir="auto">Your drive also has two pending sectors which often times indicates a failing drive, too.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 23 Nov 2019, 14:40 Jørn Dahl-Stamnes <<a href="mailto:ctrlsmart@dahl-stamnes.net">ctrlsmart@dahl-stamnes.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello,<br>
<br>
got a disk that have unreadable sectors. From logwatch I get this message:<br>
<br>
Currently unreadable (pending) sectors detected:<br>
/dev/sda [SAT] - 96 Time(s)<br>
2 unreadable sectors detected<br>
<br>
Is this a sign that this disk are about to die?<br>
<br>
$ smartct -a /dev/sda:<br>
<br>
smartctl 6.5 2016-05-07 r4318 [x86_64-linux-4.9.4-201.fc25.x86_64] (local build)<br>
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, <a href="http://www.smartmontools.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">www.smartmontools.org</a><br>
<br>
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===<br>
Model Family: Western Digital Green<br>
Device Model: WDC WD30EZRX-00AZ6B0<br>
Serial Number: WD-WCC070273005<br>
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 20808c97e<br>
Firmware Version: 80.00A80<br>
User Capacity: 3,000,592,982,016 bytes [3.00 TB]<br>
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical<br>
Rotation Rate: 5400 rpm<br>
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]<br>
ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS (minor revision not indicated)<br>
SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)<br>
Local Time is: Sat Nov 23 13:18:26 2019 CET<br>
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.<br>
SMART support is: Enabled<br>
<br>
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===<br>
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED<br>
<br>
General SMART Values:<br>
Offline data collection status: (0x84) Offline data collection activity<br>
was suspended by an interrupting command from <br>
host.<br>
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.<br>
Self-test execution status: ( 121) The previous self-test completed having<br>
the read element of the test failed.<br>
Total time to complete Offline <br>
data collection: (50280) seconds.<br>
Offline data collection<br>
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.<br>
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.<br>
Suspend Offline collection upon new<br>
command.<br>
Offline surface scan supported.<br>
Self-test supported.<br>
Conveyance Self-test supported.<br>
Selective Self-test supported.<br>
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering<br>
power-saving mode.<br>
Supports SMART auto save timer.<br>
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.<br>
General Purpose Logging supported.<br>
Short self-test routine <br>
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.<br>
Extended self-test routine<br>
recommended polling time: ( 483) minutes.<br>
Conveyance self-test routine<br>
recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes.<br>
SCT capabilities: (0x3035) SCT Status supported.<br>
SCT Feature Control supported.<br>
SCT Data Table supported.<br>
<br>
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16<br>
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:<br>
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED <br>
RAW_VALUE<br>
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0<br>
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 247 246 021 Pre-fail Always - <br>
9633<br>
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 21<br>
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0<br>
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0<br>
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 066 066 000 Old_age Always - <br>
24849<br>
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0<br>
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0<br>
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 19<br>
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 14<br>
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always - <br>
1633179<br>
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 110 102 000 Old_age Always - 42<br>
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0<br>
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 2<br>
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0<br>
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0<br>
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 1<br>
<br>
SMART Error Log Version: 1<br>
No Errors Logged<br>
<br>
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1<br>
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) <br>
LBA_of_first_error<br>
# 1 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 24838 1857598668<br>
# 2 Short offline Completed: read failure 90% 24836 1857598666<br>
# 3 Short offline Completed: read failure 90% 24812 1857598664<br>
# 4 Short offline Completed: read failure 90% 24789 1857598664<br>
# 5 Short offline Completed: read failure 90% 24765 1857598664<br>
# 6 Short offline Completed: read failure 90% 24741 1857598666<br>
# 7 Short offline Completed: read failure 90% 24717 1857598666<br>
# 8 Short offline Completed: read failure 90% 24693 1857598664<br>
# 9 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 24671 1857598665<br>
#10 Short offline Completed: read failure 90% 24669 1857598665<br>
#11 Short offline Completed: read failure 90% 24645 1857598664<br>
#12 Short offline Completed without error 00% 24621 -<br>
#13 Short offline Completed without error 00% 24597 -<br>
#14 Short offline Completed without error 00% 24573 -<br>
#15 Short offline Completed without error 00% 24549 -<br>
#16 Short offline Completed without error 00% 24525 -<br>
#17 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 24511 -<br>
#18 Short offline Completed without error 00% 24501 -<br>
#19 Short offline Completed without error 00% 24477 -<br>
#20 Short offline Completed without error 00% 24453 -<br>
#21 Short offline Completed without error 00% 24429 -<br>
<br>
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1<br>
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS<br>
1 0 0 Not_testing<br>
2 0 0 Not_testing<br>
3 0 0 Not_testing<br>
4 0 0 Not_testing<br>
5 0 0 Not_testing<br>
Selective self-test flags (0x0):<br>
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.<br>
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Jørn Dahl-Stamnes<br>
homepage: <a href="http://photo.dahl-stamnes.net/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://photo.dahl-stamnes.net/</a><br>
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